The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1887-05-19

annual report Of his Board. The re.
ceipts for the year have been $751;.
630.53. The expenses aggregate
s7S,S69.25, which, together with SS,-
647.90, bills payable reported to the
last Convention, and paid on matu-
rity, and some other funds make the
disbursements to have been SS7,744..
%. This is the best financial report
ever made to the Convention. Never
has so much money entered the treas
ury in twelve months; the Board is
entirely free from debt; and the mon
etary prospects, under anticipated
conditions were never better.
The Board has missions in all the
continents excepting Australia. In
Africa there are FIVE stations, Lagos,
Abbeokuta, Ogbomoshow, Gaun,
Hausser Farm. In these stations,
on the western coast, there are eight
missionaries with eight native evan
gelists and assistants. The church
membership is 1876, Of whom twenty
six were baptized The past conven-
tional year. In the schools are 2S4
pupils. The Rev. w. j. David, su-
perintendent of the stations, in a
retrospective report of twelve years
labor says:
I'VE have four chapels and one
substantial, commodious and beauti-
full church, where one ordained ma
tive preacher and three evangelists
preach regularly the glad tldings of
salvation. There are five schools
with 2S4 pupils and six teachers.
One hundred and seventy-one have
been baptized, thirty-two of whom
have entered into the rest eternal.
Five comfortable homes have been
built for the mission aries and native
evangelists. The results are not so
great as IN other fields; but the OBJ
stacles have been great, and, blessed
be God, many Of them have been
overcome, and the work has been
pressed manifestly forward.'
In Italy there are three American
and eight Italian laborers, located
at eleven stations. These report 26
baptisms and 306 communicants.
In China the oldest stations Of the
Convention are located. These are
found in Northern, Central and South
ern China. There are twenty Ameri-
can laborers, with thirty native as
sistants-evangelists and Bible wo-
mea. They report 46 baptisms and
a church membership of 677.
In Brazil there have been. estab-
lished missions in Rio de Janeiro,
Santa Barbara, Bahia and Maceio.
At these stations are laboring eleven
missionaries, with two native preach
ers. Baptized. II; membership, 115.
The Board says: The reports from
all our missionaries in Brazil speak
very encouragirgly of the Lords
work, though they have been bitterly
prosecuted by the Romanists." There
is no religious freedom, barely toler-
alton. IL Santa Barbara there are
about 400 Americans, mostly from
the Southern States, who emigrated
to that country upon. the failure of
the Confederacy.
The Board is very much encour-
aged with the prospects in Mexico.
In that republic we have mission
aries, II; churches and stations 81;
baptisms, 100; members $50; pupils,
over 100. Candidates for baptism,
$50. Our present territory embraces
four States, and extends from Texas
to the Pacific Ocean dividing Mexico
in equal parts and occupying all the
principal thoroughfares.
The totals Cor the Society are:
Missionaries, native and foreign, 116;
baptisms, 22S; members 1851;
churches ard stations, 65; schools,
%; pupils, j07; contributions, 3d.
012.61.
Voting on the Railroad Subscription.